Stepping away from plane anger

 Dueling banjos or more.  (https://youtu.be/i5vfw5f1CZo)

How does one handle multiple assaults on ones happiness and keep one's cool. Acting in anger or with anger, same difference, is never a good thing because when you don't like the drama being thrust upon you going about your day in anger only thrusts drama on others thus making those people angry too and so the drama and anger spreads. 

Once again I learned wisdom from my father. My father is currently entangled in a situation not of his making though his involvement is obviously his choice. My father typically has a calmer demeanor than I in these sorts of situations and perhaps that is in part of the wisdom of age. I respect my father for both his inaction and his actions, fore he knows when to fight. Also I'd like to applaud my father for he tells you his mind; he does not imply, he does not indicate, he does not suggest and from my perspective my father plants his feet where he stands on a situation, this is also know as his position. 

On to the situation my father involved. My father keeps his airplane in a hanger at an airport and there are some political games being played by another airplane owner and these games are being played in a full-throated manner. These political games include gathering community support, the involvement of public media outlets at the local and national levels, letters to local politicians; leaving only the 'hunger strike' and 'political violence' boxes unchecked. 

Of course you can not have a politic of one or of all in unanimity because who needs politics when there is a 100% consensus. This is an ongoing story still to be concluded.

The story is not the purpose for this entry, which is the example my father set and what I took away from his telling of the tail. There have a number of things going as of late that have left me frustrated, these include but are not limited to my work in general and more specifically many middle of the night shifts, the Governments reactions to COVID-19, society's general indifference to their fellow citizenry, and some personal stuff, which well personal. Oh and yet again I lost a filling and part of tooth. 

It was a lesson that I have learned in the past and had simply forgotten due to the plethora of things in my life that all seemed to be going all at the same time. A pebble can be easily stopped with the toe of your boot, yet once that pebble hits two more, which in turn hit two more pretty soon there is an avalanche of frustration that blindsides you. 

The end result being me not wanting to play at all. Once I got a better grip on myself and figured out that I needed a strategy I built a mental pigeon coupe, complete with pigeon holes and stuffed the appropriately named pigeons in their holes. This was followed-up by making squab starting off with the plumpest and easiest to catch of these fowl things. 

==QUOTES==
“Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on— it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance— unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.”
— Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 AD)
 
 “No plague has cost the human race more dear: you will see slaughterings and poisonings, accusations and counter-accusations, sacking of cities, ruin of whole peoples, the persons of princes sold into slavery by auction, torches applied to roofs, and fires not merely confined within city-walls but making whole tracts of country glow with hostile flame.”
— Seneca (Died: April 65 AD) Discussing hate